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Sunday, 30 September 2012

There continues to be several aircraft on delivery or positioning flights over the weekend:

119 - DHC-6-100 N323SJ Twin O Inc., Wilmington DE

Arrived in Cape May, NJ (KWWD) yesterday 29-Sep-2012 after completing the first several legs after its overhaul by Altenrhein Aviation in Switzerland. Today 30-Sep-2012 it has flown on to Marion, SC (KMAO) and is flight planned to continue on to West Palm Beach, FL

Thursday, 27 September 2012

As noted in the blog entry for Monday, 24-Sep-2012 the former Winair PJ-WIE/N34KH was registered to Ikhana Aircraft Services on 20-Sep-2012. Below is a picture of the aircraft taken back in 2008, showing the state of the airframe for most of the past ten years.

Registered to Ikhana Group Inc., Murietta, CA 20-Sep-2012, and reserved as N808RT the same day to Ikhana Aircraft Services, Murietta, CA. This aircraft has actually been idle & parked at the RWMI/Ikhana Group facility at Murietta, CA (F70) for the past eleven years. It was delivered to Winair in 1977, and sold to JAS Aircraft in October 2000.

851 - DHC-6-400 HB-LPY Zimex Aviation, Glattbrugg

After being delivered from the Farnborough Air Show to Altenrhein, Switzerland on 17-Jul-2012, HB-LPY is now en route to it's contracted base as of 23-Sep-2012. It has flown via Sitia, Greece (LGST) to Aswan, Egypt (HESN) with a final destination of Entebbe, Uganda. Given that, it is likely either joining or replacing sistership HB-LUX (MSN 846) at the Kampala Aero Club & Flight Training Center at the MAF owned airfield at Kajjansi, Uganda.

New Images

The Hevilift/OK Tedi Development Series 400 P2-IRM departed Cairns, QLD (YBCS) 23-Sep-2012 bound for Port Moresby (AYPY) and Mount Hagen (AYMH) and is pictured below in a rather typical PNG scene on 24-Sep-2012.

Saturday, 22 September 2012

As expected, the aircraft has finally been officially registered to Air Labrador Ltd., Goose Bay, NL 21-Sep-2012. It had arrived in Goose Bay, NL (CYYR) 18-Jul-2012 on delivery from Springbank, AB (CYBW).

Friday, 21 September 2012

Prior to entering service on contract overseas with ADI the aircraft appears to be doing some training and/or test flying from Pontiac, MI. On 19-Sep-2012 it flew Pontiac-Oakland County, MI (KPTK) to Moline, IL and returned to Pontiac via Wayland, MI (41C) the same day.

852 - DHC-6-400 C-FMJO Viking Air Ltd., Sidney, BC

Just an update on the changes outlined on 17-Sep-2012 - the aircraft was officially transferred to the U.S. Army - Fixed Wing Project Office in Huntsville (who manages the U.S. Army Golden Knights fleet) on 11-Sep-2012. Although the current location of N752RT is unknown, it is expected to still be with Ikhana in Murietta, CA.

Incident Report

655 - DHC-6-300 9N-ABQ Tara Air, Kathmandu

21-Sep-2012 The aircraft's left wing struck rocks while accelerating for take-off at Dolpa Airport, Juphal, Nepal resulting in a runway excursion of approximately 50 metres. The Nepalgunj Civil Aviation Office reports (unconfirmed) damage to the left wing, engine and main gear.

The rocky terrain adjacent to the runway can be seen in this video taken from a PAC 750-XL in 2011

Monday, 17 September 2012

Cancelled 13-Sep-2012 on export to U.S.A. and assigned 14-Sep-2012 as N752RT to Ikhana Group Inc., Murietta, CA.

This aircraft was delivered to the Ikhana facility in Murietta on 03-Jul-2012, had it's Canadian registration cancelled on 10-Jul-2012 (without officially taking up U.S. marks), but was restored as C-FMJO on 31-Aug-2012.

It is the first airframe bound for the U.S. Army Golden Knights. Ikhana also has registrations N762RT & N763RT reserved, presumably for the other two aircraft (MSN 862 & 863).

Returned to Gravitas Aviation Ltd. 13-Aug-2012 and leased to Aerodynamics Inc., Waterford, MI same day. As noted in the blog entry of 05-Sep-2012 the aircraft flew Houston-Southwest (KAXH) - North Little Rock, AR (KORK) on 05-Sep-2012, and then on to Pontiac-Oakland County, MI (KPTK) on 06-Sep-2012, which would have been the delivery flight to ADI.

Planned to fly Cairns, QLD (YBCS) to Port Morseby (AYPY) 14-Sep-2012. If this flight operates it would be a remarkably quick entry into service; as noted in the entries below the aircraft only arrived in Cairns from Sri Lanka on 09-Sep-2012.

Sunday, 9 September 2012

As noted yesterday, C-FBBA has recently positioned to Australia upon completion of it's lease to Sri Lankan Airtaxi. On 09-Sep-2012 the aircraft flew Darwin, NT (YPDN) to Cairns, QLD (YBCS) and is currently residing in front of the Hevilift facility in Cairns.

Below is a photograph of the aircraft arriving in Cairns, and you can see that it has shed most of the distinctive Sri Lankan Airtaxi scheme.

Saturday, 8 September 2012

Just a brief update on the item of 05-Sep-2012 below; with the transfer of N153WD to Flanagan's certfificate, their Beech 99 N126WD was taken back by Ashe Aircraft Enterprises on the same date.

276 - DHC-6-300 C-FBBA Kenn Borek Air, Calgary, AB

Planned to route Denpasar (Bali), Indonesia (WADD) - Darwin, NT, Australia (YPDN) 08-Sep-2012; C-FBBA had been operating under lease to Sri Lankan Airtaxi since November of 2010. This lease was expected to terminate at the end of August 2012, while the second aircraft (MSN 321 C-GLKB) will reportedly remain in Sri Lanka for several more months.

With thanks to Dave Subelack, a nice shot of C-FBBA before leaving Calgary in 2010

Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Has filed for Houston-Southwest, TX (KAXH) to North Little Rock, AR (KORK) today (05-Sep-2012). This aircraft was acquired by Vancouver, BC based Gravitas Aviation on 11-May-2012 and has subsequently been undergoing maintenance in Houston. The departure to Little Rock today is perhaps inidicative of it being on delivery to the new lessor.

The other former Carson Services DHC-6 N239Z (MSN 239) which was acquired by Gravitas at the same time arrived at Houston-Southwest on 14-May-2012, and is presumably still present there.

504 - DHC-6-300 N504WJ Greenwood Group Inc., Ponca City, OK

Today (05-Sep-2012) the aircraft appears to be flying a post-maintenance test flight to the north of West Georgia Regional Airport, GA.

Tuesday, 4 September 2012

Continuing it's journey presumably back to base in North Carolina, on 02-Sep-2012 N181CS flew Iqaluit, NU (CYFB) to Kuujjaq, QC (CYVP), on 03-Sep-2012 on to Wabush, NL (CYWK) and Bangor, ME (KBGR) and on 04-Sep-2012 to Hamilton, NY (KVGC) and Youngstown-Elser Metro, OH (4G4)

New Images

The Viking Series 400 Gallery has been updated with seven additional photos.

Coming Soon..... The Twin Otter Vistaliner Gallery. Close to one hundred Vistaliner photographs to be added - just waiting on usage permission for about 20%.

Thanks to Dave Parker for allowing access to his photographs for these next several Twin Otters. You can see his many other interesting photographs here

MSN 572 returned to it's birthplace in Canada as C-GOYX after this photo was taken at Wilson in April of 2012. It was built in 1977 for Schreiner Airways of the Netherlands, but spent the vast majority of it's career in west Africa in support of Schreiner's operations there.

MSN 616 was delivered to Scotland's Loganair in 1979 as G-BGEN, and subsequently served with Schreiner Airways and TMK Air Commuter before joining Airfast in 1992. Airfast Indonesia will receive their first of four Viking Series 400 Twin Otters in 2012

Saturday, 1 September 2012

Is currently (02-Sep-2012) en route from Sondrestromfjord (BGSF) to Iqaluit, NU (CYFB) and has filed for Iqaluit, NU (CYFB) to Kuujjuaq, QC (CYVP). Our last report on this aircraft on Aug-29-2012 had it flying from Glasgow to Stavanger and Reykjavik.

This aircraft was previously cancelled from the Canadian register 10-Jul-2012 which coincided with the receipt of U.S. type certification the day prior. It had flown to Murietta, CA on 03-Jul-2012 for work by RWMI/Ikhana Group. It is expected to take up U.S. military marks in due course.

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